From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC521BC0A for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:00:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBAB0oU9013957 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:00:50 +0100 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1578522nfc for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:00:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=H1qv7eakcwLi/9t3L2Jd8LMu/5XejhSDeGfC+ugZUJxE+E1EsJcwdQUe4aRamAQwhB9CXMe+Di6GCgXgBYiVc2Csgv/eXw0UPR0H1EjXVqdmuKMPdtgq8Y0lihikkneV8FcTDcCM7RSD7nawcuCjP+qWFy2WwcfNV4Cu91AkmXw= Received: by 10.82.135.13 with SMTP id i13mr278766bud.1165748449757; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.16 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:00:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:00:49 +0100 From: Tom To: "Andreas Rossberg" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Today's inflamatory opinion: exceptions are bad Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <004501c71c40$b52e8d00$15b2a8c0@wiko> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_96036_15767438.1165748449685" References: <004501c71c40$b52e8d00$15b2a8c0@wiko> X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 457BE8E2.001 on discorde : j-chkmail score : X : 0/20 1 0.000 -> 1 X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 457BE8E2.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; erlang:01 erlang:01 fame:98 fame:98 caml-list:01 thesis:01 thesis:01 exceptions:01 philosophy:02 philosophy:02 let:03 guess:04 guess:04 approach:08 approach:08 X-Attachments: cset="UTF-8" cset="UTF-8" ------=_Part_96036_15767438.1165748449685 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > > > I guess Joe Armstrong (of Erlang fame) would have to say a lot about how > to > deal with failure properly. According to him, and the seemingly successful > Erlang philosophy (which is, "let it crash"), attempts to locally handle > errors are exactly the wrong approach. See his very insightful thesis. > Would you please be so kind as to appoint us to the very thesis you have in mind? - Tom ------=_Part_96036_15767438.1165748449685 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

I guess Joe Armstrong (of Erlang fame) would have to say a lot about how to
deal with failure properly. According to him, and the seemingly successful
Erlang philosophy (which is, "let it crash"), attempts to locally handle
errors are exactly the wrong approach. See his very insightful thesis.

Would you please be so kind as to appoint us to the very thesis you have in mind?

- Tom
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